Fall 2021—Friday, November 12, 7 p.m.
Magnesium
Magnezja
2020, 120 minutes
Directed by: Maciej Bochniak
Written by: Maciej Bochniak, Mateusz Kościukiewicz
Cast: Dawid Ogrodnik, Mateusz Kościukiewicz, Maja Ostaszewska, Agata Kulesza, Malgorzata Gorol, Borys Szyc, Andrzej Chyra, Magdalena Boczarska, Bartosz Bielenia, Piotr Glowacki
Description
A western, inspired by the likes of Tarantino and Leone, set in the 1920s in the borderland between Poland and the USSR. After the death of the gang boss and the head of the family, power over the criminal Lewenfish clan passes into the hands of his daughter—Róża. Together with her sisters, the woman continues her father’s shady business and does everything to resist the growing strength of Soviet bandits led by the conservative Lew.
Meanwhile, in the shadow of the rivalry between two powerful Mafia-style families, twin brothers plan to rob a bank where the wealth of the Lewenfisz family is kept. However, it takes only a few bad decisions, plain bad luck and two dead bodies for the whole intrigue to be jeopardized. What is about to happen will have bloody consequences with a dark humorous twist, which will shake up the borderland for good.